audience and pastor rick warren and co-authors dr. amen and dr. hyman. "the daniel plan." i'll be starting it in january. that's it for us tonight. see you all here next time. the following is a cnn special report. into the tunnel! let's use the tunnel. >> we knew him as "fast & furious." a california surfer. >> i remember him, sandy beach hair in surf trunks paddling out into the water. >> he had the blue eyes, blond hair. >> turned mega watt movie star. >> i thought this young guy is so full of light. he really can act. >> but so much of paul walker's passion was played offscreen. >> he said he was one foot in, one foot out with the hollywood

game. >> this is the bridge of yesterday and making the scramble to port-au-prince. >> he was a philanthropist. >> they need help. >> he was very cool to see someone on the screen who portrays this hero and then to actually work with him and go whoa, whoa, whoa. you are as much of a big hero. >> he was a father and friend. >> he's just such a lovable man. >> and then, the tragic crash that took his life. >> we all lost a friend in this. >> i can't -- i can't really believe it. it's just not fair. jooirk get away. it might blow up. >> the car is in half. i can't tell if there's someone in there. >> video captures the horror. >> he's dead. >> there's nothing. we tried. we went through fire extinguishers i.

>> a day that ended in tragedy started with charity. movie star paul walker at an annual event for his foundation reach out worldwide. >> we were collecting toys and donations so we can distribute them around. >> j.d. dwarfman runs operations for the charity walker co-founded. >> came out to show support, thank everybody. he wasn't there for the pictures. just normal paul. >> just normal paul. pursuing two of his great passions, helping others and showing off fast cars. including this rare porsche worth nearly $500,000. >> brought about 600 into the u.s. back around 2004 to 2006. >> there is nothing ordinary about it. a top speed of more than 200 miles per hour. the engine in the middle of the car. and oil changes costing $900. >> it's a really finely tuned super high performance super

car. driving one really reminds me a lot of driving a race car with that kind of quick, razor sharp reflexes. >> but it leaves a razor thin margin for error on the road. >> i love the power. you feel it right in the chest pushing you back when you push down the gas but a car like this needs to be driven with great respect because it has so much power and capability. >> this photo is possibly the last ever taken of walker and there's the porsche, a temptation that would lure him and a close friend roger rodas away from the charity event. not surprising for two men who were racing competitors and co-owners of a carcus tomization shop. it was speed, after all, that drove walker's fame. "fast & furious" a fix for adrenaline junkies.

rob cohen launched the franchise and pitched it to walker. >> it was over dinner i said to him, you know, i'm developing a movie. we just got going on the script but i'm developing a movie about this, you know, underground street racing world. >> paul walker obsessed with amateur racing from an early age didn't skip a beat. >> he said, i get the girl. i get the gun. i get the car and you're directing. i don't have to wait for the script. i'm in. >> explosions. stunts and speed. it was a dream come true for walker. >> i really don't see how i could have more fun or making a movie could be more of a thrill than it was making this one. >> one film would turn into seven. with box office receipts topping $2 billion. theaters filled with moviegoers drawn into the action. and to the lead actor for more than a decade. >> he's just such a lovable man.

there's something in that spirit of life and lightness that just kept coming through and people were just very attracted to that. >> "fast & furious" would become a cultural phenomenon, a luke kative franchise of video games and merchandise. >> feels good to be appreciated, especially talking about ten years, ten years plus of your life. >> one of the worst phone calls i have ever gotten. i was shocked, i was speechless. i didn't believe it was real. >> but it was real. not a scene from a movie. >> from our location, it's a little difficult to know what it was. someone called it in. said that there was a vehicle fire. >> paul walker, roger rodas and the porsche had not arrived back at the nearby charity event. >> we all ran around, jumped in cars, grabbed fire extinguishers

like myself and immediately went to the vehicle. >> but time wasn't on their side where witnesses had only seen smoke, now there was fire. it was too late. >> it was engulfed in flames. there was nothing. they were crapped. and employees, friends of the shop, we tried. >> the car barely recognizable. two men now dead in an accident still under investigation. the site now transformed into a place to mourn and remember. >> scotty and diane, they're going to be my family. >> when we return, paul walker before he was "fast & furious."

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before he raced to fame as a hero cop on the big screen, paul walker played adorable on tv. >> but they want a little boy. and i'm a little boy.

and me and scotty are special. >> yeah, you're special. >> his mom had him doing child modeling, little gigs here and there. he was never super passionate about acting as a young guy and something he fell into very naturally. >> the son of a model and a sewer contractor, walker was the oldest of four kids in a working class mormon home in sunland, california. >> they were a typical family but very loving, very close knit. >> amber lea was a childhood friend of walker's. >> most of his friends would typically call him poolywog. he had a contagious spirit. he was always smiling. his just effervescent personality was electric. >> at 13 years old that electric personality landed paul a string of roles in popular '90s sitcoms "like who's the boss." >> high school isn't a picnic.

>> and "charles in charge." but for this california kid acting took a backseat. >> paul walker grew up in san fernando valley and he loved surfing from a young age. he eels always been fascinated by the ocean. later he became really into brazilian jujitsu and he was an athlete. he was a sportsman and he loved the outdoors and the blue eyes, blond hair and california surfer accent. >> how could you not love surfing looking like him looked. >> right, right? for a lot of people he became a prototypical california heart throb. >> a california heartthrob with a thing for cars. >> i remember when i got a jetta, a volkswagen jetta my senior year and he saw hi car and he said, oh, you know, i'm not one that swears but he said, oh, that car's bitching and caught me off guard and he was almost as excited about it as i

was but i got to drive it. >> there's probably nothing he couldn't have done. >> he played junior varsity football. >> i remember him playing junior year because we weren't particularly good that particular year but he was playing safety and looking back, i've coached a lot of games but i'll tell you that he had one of the two best hits seen in a jv game. >> really? >> yeah. we were clocked in the game. but he wasn't quiting. >> off the field he kept his classmates entertained. >> i would say closer to class clown than laid back. >> really? >> yeah. great sense of humor and the smile and so it was -- i think people appreciated his sense 0 of humor. >> by the time he graduated from high school, walker's good looks and charm landed him a role on "the young and the restless." >> you better off and leave the kid allen. >> talk a little bit about the

paul walker of his teenage years because, i mean, he said i smoked bowls and kind of pan handled and i kind of lived the transient life for a long time and didn't know where i was or what i was doing. >> liked couch surfing here and there and driving in the wilderness and 16 years living out of a suitcase. >> when money got tight, he went back to acting on tv on tv's "touched by an angel." >> that's great. >> on the big screen in "plea santville." >> he played chip martin, all-american basketball jock and squeaky clean and a super funny role in this morality satire. he is kind of the boy corrupted or enlightened by reece witherspoon. he made a big impression in that movie. >> the movie was a hit and finally a decent payday for

walker. that same year, some news he wasn't expecting. >> when paul found out that his girlfriend at the time was pregnant i think it rocked him. he went to a christian school and he didn't like the idea of and it scared him and he also - knew that he was a wild guy. he said, i was sleeping with her friends at the time and it did not seem like a good idea to be -- to be married. >> with walker focused on his playboy life style, his daughter meadow lived full-time with her mother in hawaii but having a daughter, walker said, was a life changer. he buckled down and got serious. >> i had a dream that we were beating bangle 14-3. >> i think everyone started really paying attention to him when he was in "vars if i blues." >> he was a supporting character you really remembered. he played a football quarterback who's sidelined by a knee injury and a role that had a lot of heart and kind of goofy movie.

>> but walker craved a meatier role and auditioned for "the skulls." >> paul came in and, you know, at first he was like a surfer dude. >> rob cohen was directing. >> the first reading it was more like he was, hey man, i got tubed and it was for aly. right? and then i said, look, just say the lines, finish the endings on the words and just do it like a guy with an education. because this kid would have gone to prep school and all that stuff. so, paul did it again. and he nailed it. i mean, he was like really could do it. and i thought, this young guy is so full of light, light, you know, he just came out of his eyes. >> how they know everything we do. they know every place we go. >> when we got to work on "the skulls" then i saw heeally can

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♪ it's been 12 years since paul walker got the role of a lifetime going from stud wingman to leading man. aging gracefully on screen as an action movie star, paul walker was also maturing offscreen. most of us know paul walker as brian o'connor from "fast & and

the furious." that action star. but you wrote that he was much more than that. how so? >> i think people didn't realize that he had a full, vibrant life off the screen. he always said he was one foot in, one foot out with the whole hollywood game. >> outside of the hollywood game walker was deeply involved in the world of fast cars. and even raced with the hollywood plug. >> what's up, paul walker? >> he was a total auto head and owned always evolving. it was a performance shop that really appealed to the car junkie that paul walker was. >> paul was much more than a car junkie. he was also deeply committed to human tar humanitarian relief. in 2010, walker took a team to haiti helping in the aftermath of the major earthquake that devastated the small nation. >> asked a bunch of people what

they thought we should bring. >> he knew that you had to do something. know one knew what to expect but he was bringing medical equipment, water filtration and do what he could. when they got there, they did so much for their first time they were able to set up a hospital in an orphanage and the experience he came home with after that was i have the opportunity to do something very special. >> walker wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty. >> you talked about the fact that he went to alabama to help with victims of the tornadoes. >> yep. >> lots of people talk about things they care about. he actually did something. >> he cared about other people and he went and helped them. >> we were helping clear a house. it was 100 degrees. the humidity was through the roof. and we're just working with chain saws, just piling through full gear on sweating, working hard. >> but then, the homeowner

realized that a hollywood star was among those helping out. >> and the emotion that they expressed, this was someone who just lost everything, that someone, you know, with the name notoriety of paul would just be there working to make their life a little better with -- there was no camera crew, there was nothing. it knew their mind. >> it's sbraesing because he was very private. he almost remained like a mystery to all of his fans, other than what they saw on screen. >> yeah. paul walker didn't go after a lot of press. he didn't necessarily want to be photographed. you didn't see him coming up in magazines. >> sales woman irene king recalls a day paul walker was in her jewelry star as an iraq veteran and his fiancee were shopping for ridges. >> she saw something she liked and she was trying this them on and turned out they couldn't afford them. >> paul walker could afford a $10,000 ring. >> he wanted to help them out. and so, he just out and out

bought it for them. he went to the manager and he was very specific about having it anonymous. he didn't want the couple to know that he was buying the ring for them. >> walker's father paul sr. says the generosity wasn't only extended the strangers. >> he was always doing stuff for us. big gestures. he just -- his heart was so big. he'd go have a family gathering and say, all the little kids, nieces and nephews with uncle paul and it was always, don't worry about college. take care of college. just study hard. >> walker never finished college himself but even as his movie career took off his father knew junior was ready to slow down. to become a more present father for his daughter. >> he was looking so forward to

going to take a hiatus and, gosh dad, she's 15. i don't have much more time to be with her. >> walker's words proved to be eerily prophetic leaving behind those who loved him the most. friend and director rob cohen was devastated by the news. >> he called me his movie dad and i feel like i lost my son. i can't -- i can't really believe it. it's just not fair. that's what i keep thinking. it's just not fair. >> walker's death had a similar affect on his "fast and furious" costarred like vin diesel, dwayne johnson and tyrese gibson. diesel visited the crash site to pay his respects. >> thank you for coming down here. and showing that angel up in heaven how much you appreciated him. >> johnson took to instagram

simply posting, love you, brother. and tyrese gibson with whom he was particularly close -- >> we have seen him grieving on social media and the crash site and indicative of the fact they were very, very tight. he had a very good relationship with his "fast & furious" cast mates. >> days later, those cast mates released this tribute. >> the most important thing in life will always be the people in this room. >> with his cast mates now grieving, "fast & furious" 7 has been put on hold and the future of the franchise is uncertain. in the end, walker left a lasting impression in life and death. >> you forgot that he was an actor. you forgot that he was a name. he was just -- he was a friend. we all lost a friend in this. >> focus. it is right here. it's what's important. it's what's of the heart.

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